{"id":24711,"date":"2020-02-29T21:24:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T02:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/?p=24711"},"modified":"2020-03-26T01:08:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T05:08:27","slug":"atp-santiago-final-prediction-thiago-seyboth-wild-vs-casper-ruud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2020\/02\/29\/atp-santiago-final-prediction-thiago-seyboth-wild-vs-casper-ruud\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Santiago Final Prediction: Thiago Seyboth Wild vs Casper Ruud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young guns took over Santiago. The revamped Chile Open will crown either a 21-year-old, Casper Ruud, or a 19-year-old, Thiago Seyboth Wild. Aside from youth, both finalists share in common a fearsome forehand. \u00a0Who will deploy his weapons more successfully on Sunday?<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Santiago Final Prediction<\/h2>\n<h3>Thiago Seyboth Wild vs Casper Ruud<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Head to head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1202112782\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.66667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/1202112782?et=QxNCnJYCTIZRnGiJc7bZTQ&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=jOe0247H6sMUxNMVZyGH5LcUX1xDjrdKl3tKZNUaIdI=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This matchup has the potential to be a cracker. He may not be able to summon his best tennis every week, let alone every day, but Ruud has made a substantial leap forward in 2020. On his fifth attempt, the Norwegian finally managed to defeat Albert Ramos Vi\u00f1olas by a 7-6 6-2 score. Umpire Rafael Maia had his hands full trying to keep the match under control. The tenth game of the first set was especially messy, with both players upset about two separate decisions by the official, one of which even required the presence of tournament supervisor Cedric Mourier. Despite wasting several set points in that game, Ruud ended up sealing his ticket for a second final in three weeks in almost two hours of work.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, Seyboth Wild delivered a superb performance against Renzo Olivo, routinely beating the Argentinian 6-1 6-3. The Brazilian won more than half of his return points, including an absurd 69% rate against second serves. It won\u2019t be easy to replicate those stout numbers, as Ruud has won a 78% of his first service points throughout the tournament. Regardless of the outcome of the final, this week in Chile has been a massive positive for the 2018 US Open boys\u2019 champion. Seyboth Wild is guaranteed to rise at least 51 spots in the rankings, but a win would vault him an extra 18 spots, all the way up to No. 113. Not bad for a wild card recipient, right?<\/p>\n<p>Still, as impressive as Seyboth Wild has been at the Chile Open, having only dropped one set en route to the final, it\u2019s hard to go against Ruud\u2019s similar momentum but superior experience. I expect the second seed to hoist the trophy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prediction: Ruud in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1201369572\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 74.07407% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/1201369572?et=eUtznrYGThN4vhcReBYWnA&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=fw1cNjTrSDKo5Atibs1MGX5fn0i0rmXdBC37_Jnipj8=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"440\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young guns took over Santiago. The revamped Chile Open will crown either a 21-year-old, Casper Ruud, or a 19-year-old, Thiago Seyboth Wild. Aside from youth, both finalists share in common a fearsome forehand. \u00a0Who will deploy his weapons more successfully on Sunday? ATP Santiago Final Prediction Thiago Seyboth Wild vs Casper Ruud Head to head: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1663,"featured_media":24713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,3],"tags":[915,450,4657,11052,11214,11215,811,11213,11051,11217,11216,1095,2373,2369,9664,11212],"class_list":["post-24711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","category-atp","tag-albert-ramos","tag-albert-ramos-vinolas","tag-atp-predictions","tag-atp-santiago","tag-atp-santiago-final","tag-atp-santiago-prediction","tag-casper-ruud","tag-cedric-mourier","tag-chile-open","tag-chile-open-final","tag-chile-open-prediction","tag-renzo-olivo","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-thiago-seyboth-wild","tag-thiago-seyboth-wild-vs-casper-ruud-prediction"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}